Describing the weather in the style of Charles Dickens (KS2/KS3/KS4)

Starter: List words associated with rain.

Learning outcomes:
To identify features of Dickens’ style
To apply knowledge in a piece of descriptive writing
To evaluate against the success criteria

Next students examine the methods Dickens uses to describe the fog in an extract from ‘Bleak House’ and the snow in an extract from ‘A Christmas Carol’. There is differentiation so students of different ability can examine different methods used by the author.

Students must then try to write a paragraph in the same style about rain. There is a differentiated success criteria.

The plenary can be done in the form of peer and self assessment and has sentence stems linked to the success criteria.